Shirley Kossick THE PENGUIN BOOK OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S STORIES edited by Kate Figes (Viking, R108,95) THIS is an excellent collection of 33 short stories drawn from various parts of the world and covering a wide diversity of subjects. There is no obvious theme or thread unifying the collection, and in her rather perfunctory introduction Kate […]
Using a State of Emergency to combat crime puts the solution in the hands of the problem, argues Nicholas Smith SHOULD the government declare a State of Emergency in an attempt to deal with the crime epidemic? Probably not, but this is a complex question so we first need to define our terms. The “crime […]
Letters warning of two years’ medical `vocational training’ have gone out, report Jim Day and Mungo Soggott HEALTH authorities have told medical interns to expect call-up papers, riding roughshod over the parliamentary health committee’s rejection of the scheme. This week students across the country received letters from the South African Medical and Dental Council telling […]
Mail & Guardian Reporter THE three men who blew the whistle on police death squads have been convicted of the murder of Durban lawyer Griffiths Mxenge while their two colleagues, whom they say were also involved, have been acquitted. Former Vlakplaas commander Dirk Coetzee, and his operatives Almond Nofemela and David Tshikilange, were found guilty […]
THE ANGELLA JOHNSON INTERVIEW MEET Gilbert Magabotse, a South African sporting hero. His face may not be as familiar to you as that of Olympic marathon gold medallist Josiah Thugwane, and he has not been invited to tea with Nelson Mandela, but here is the country’s latest world champion. The reason you might not have […]
Gavin Lewis IT’S easy to be cynical about the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP). The programme has not been helped by the rhetorical overload that accompanied its launch, unrealistic targets accompanied by impossible deadlines and the spectacle of many “opinion-makers”, particularly in business and the media (with some honourable exceptions), jumping on and off the […]
Paul Farrelly in London and John Aglionby in Jakarta THE gold rush is over. The prospectors, tarnished by the Indonesian Bre-X gold hoax, have lost their sparkle. Small mining firms panning in Indonesia and Africa have seen their shares slump as wary investors query the value of their prospects and plan an exodus from the […]
With the passing of the final TRC amnesty deadline, there have been many surprising revelations.
Depending who you listen to, Internet commerce has either flopped or is booming. Either way, there are South Africans who are making a lot of money from it, reports Arthur Goldstuck IT is the numbers, in the end, that impress, and there are enough of those to show that the Internet has become big business […]
The hard men chosen for the Lions squad arrive on Sunday, and the Springboks are looking particularly vulnerable at the moment RUGBY:Steve Morris THERE must surely be the realisation that, as was the case when this country was first re-admitted to the international arena five years ago, our rugby has again suffered the type of […]